by Lehla Eldridge in
04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 14 Work Life Balance, 16 The healthy child, 18 Self Care for Parents, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction

Not Back to School

We are not going to the shops and buying school clothes for the next year, our kids are not mentally preparing themselves for what lies ahead in a few weeks, shoes are not getting shined, shirts not ironed, books not being especially bought, in our household none of this is going on.  As we are not going back to school. Our household isn’t all Instagram shiney, we aren’t always on to the next thing smiling and laughing without a care in the world. There are days when I look at

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by Lehla Eldridge in
04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 11 for friends, 12 relationships, 14 Work Life Balance, 017 Happy Healthy Parents Introduction, 36 Community, 41 Socializing

18 Steps to having a ‘Workaway’ person help your family.

Workaway is a website that’s aim is to help people who are travelling to find a place to stay for free in exchange for helping their hosts. By creating a swap between the host and the traveller a fine balance is met which enables each party to benefit. It goes like this, if you are a host you provide food and accommodation.  If you are a traveller you get free board and food in exchange for offering a few hours of help each day. Hundreds of travellers and host families

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by Lehla Eldridge in
03 Parenting and Working, 07 Unschooling, 08 self-directed learning, 09 For Parents, 13 Working at Home with Kids, 14 Work Life Balance, 18 Self Care for Parents, 21 For Mothers

Is it possible to do anything other than unschool (ie work) when you unschool your children?.

That is a question I ask myself a lot. Right now I am sitting the kitchen, I have a bowl of muesli to my left which my son made for me and my daughter is showing me the fact that our cat has dyed his three paws green. I say three as he is missing a leg. I say to myself, ‘when I have free time I will finish that book, when I have a clear moment, I will get on with those illustrations.’ But in truth I don’t have

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by Lehla Eldridge in
04 Family Wellbeing, 09 For Parents, 13 Working at Home with Kids, 14 Work Life Balance, 21 For Mothers

Overwhelm an Over Flowing Toilet and the Beauty of Bollywood.

It has been a week where quite frankly packing the kids off to school may well have been a lovely thing. Getting out them out of the house at 7am getting them back around 2pm. Having the time to figure out the bills, the website, the laptop, the crowd funding project. Today has not been that day. There are days when it all seems to go wrong, even pairs of days..or weeks. We are having a pair of those weeks. I can’t even blame the moon. Last night as we

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